Chapter 8 vocab and statements
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What is memory? | show 🗑
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show | To remember any event, you have to go through the encode, storage, and retrieval processes.
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What is the first stage of forming memory? | show 🗑
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show | Second you have to process the information into your short-term memory; encode it through rehearsal.
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What is the third stage of forming memory? | show 🗑
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show | Automatic processing is an unconscious encoding of incidental information.
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show | Some examples of automatic processing are the encoding of space, time, frequency and well-learned information, such as word meanings.
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What is effortful processing? | show 🗑
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show | Rehearsal is conscious repetition.
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What is the spacing effect? | show 🗑
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What is the serial position effect? | show 🗑
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show | Imagery is mental pictures; a powerful aid to effortful processing, especially when combined with encoding.
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show | Mnemonics are memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices.
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What is chunking? | show 🗑
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show | Iconic memory is a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographer picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second.
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What is echoic memory? | show 🗑
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show | Long-term potentiation (LTP) is an increase in a synapse's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation; believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory.
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What is flashbulb memory? | show 🗑
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show | Amnesia is the loss of memory.
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show | Implicit memory is retention independent of conscious recollection.
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What is a hippocampus? | show 🗑
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What does the hippocampus do? | show 🗑
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show | A recall is a measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test.
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show | Recognition is a measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple-choice test.
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What is relearning? | show 🗑
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What is priming? | show 🗑
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What is deja vu? | show 🗑
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show | Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience.
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show | Mood-congruent memory is the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood.
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show | Encoding failure leads to forgetting.
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show | Without effort, many memories never form.
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What is forgetting? | show 🗑
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How could you explain forgotten events? | show 🗑
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What is proactive interference? | show 🗑
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What is retroactive interference? | show 🗑
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show | Repression is the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories.
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What is the misinformation effect? | show 🗑
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How did Loftus study the misinformation effect? | show 🗑
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What is source amnesia? | show 🗑
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show | Source amnesia is at the heart of many false memories.
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